Implementing clinical supervision (part 2): using proctor's model to structure the implementation of clinical supervision in a ward setting

This is the second of three articles on clinical supervision. This study was undertaken a number of years ago when there was limited but useful literature in press regarding the models of supervision available. Following a review of the literature Proctor's (1987) model of clinical supervision was the model of choice. The authors' objective through this series of papers, is to facilitate and enable wards an areas to set clinical supervision in motion. Although we are reporting here on a previous study the results and process have salience for current practice and lead into a more recent study on using evidence-based practice in clinical supervision. Through a mixed methodology, using a questionnaire to generate data, staff views on the usefulness of the model emerged.